n 1969 to the death of Giuseppe Brion, founder of Brion Vega, the wife of him, Onorina, commissioned to Carlo Scarpa the construction of a Tomb in San Vito d"Altivole near Asolo, in the province of Treviso, in an area of 2200 square next to the little cemetery. The construction of the Tomb began in 1970 and ended in 1978, the year of the death of Carlo Scarpa.
[...] I would like to explain this work...I consider this work, if you permit me, to be rather good and which will get better over time. I have tried to put some poetic imagination into it, though not in order to create poetic architecture but to make a certain kind of architecture that could emanate a sense of formal poetry.... [...] (Carlo Scarpa, Vienna - 1976)
At the Brion Cemetery a common entrance leads to a crossroads: two ways to meditate, the first one fits all, is suggested by a shifted staircase, follow it means a journey which has as eyes the heart and as scenery the death"s of parents memory (the Arc - Arcosolium) and relatives (the Chapel) and the community (the Church). The other way is for the solitaires, the poets, is a journey more personal and difficult: to move forward you will lowering with the weight of the body a glass door that reflects our image; arrived on the island in the middle of the lake (of our hearts), closed in the pavilion we see only ourselves: the lowered curtains are opened only at the tomb of the parents with a kind of viewfinder; this is the only relationship with the society which we can not deny. But if we sit down to quiet on the bench you can turn around our free view: the curtains are distant, heaven and earth are rejoined; at that time, you can clearly see the connections between the parties, smile and perhaps feel own breath. [...] (Guido Pietropoli)
